Moles in frame for Bangladesh job

By Paul Bolton

Former Warwickshire batsman Andy Moles has emerged as a contender to become Bangladesh’s new coach. The post will become vacant when former Australia batsman Stuart Law’s contract expires at the end of June and Moles has sent off his application after being encouraged to submit his CV.

Moles, 51, has previous international coaching experience with Hong Kong, Kenya, Scotland and New Zealand and has also coached at first-class level in South Africa and New Zealand.

“I am looking to get back into top level coaching and the Bangladesh role is something that interests me,” Moles said. “I can confirm that I have sent off a letter of application.

“They’ve just had a good Asia Cup, where they lost narrowly to Pakistan in the final, they have a lot of talented youngsters coming through and coaching them would be an exciting challenge.”

Moles, a member of Warwickshire’s 1994 treble-winning squad, began his coaching career with Free State in South Africa before he took charge of Kenya, which included the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England, then Scotland, whom he guided to the ICC Trophy title in Ireland in 2005.

More recently, Moles coached Northern Districts to New Zealand’s first-class title in 2008 and persuaded Andrew Strauss to play as overseas player for part of the season ahead of England’s Test tour there later that winter.

Moles was appointed New Zealand coach in November 2008 as successor to John Bracewell but he resigned 11 months later after differences of opinion with some senior players. His last match in charge of New Zealand was the 2009 Champions Trophy final defeat by Australia.

He has since coached at Wellingborough School and the University of Western Cape in Cape Town where he is now based.

 

Date: 23/04/2012 16:06:38 by Paul Bolton
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